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Letter From the Editor
Our worst Filmmaker cover was Spring 2003. We decided to break with our tradition of director or actor portraits in favor of an iconic image illustrating that issue’s major article, a piece by Anthony Kaufman on filmmakers embracing DIY distribution. It would be something like a New York Times Magazine cover, we thought — a stark shot that would act as an instantly recognizable visual metaphor for the serious journalism inside. That art, however, was a generic and uninteresting picture of a padlock. (Filmmakers are locked out of the system — get it?) As soon as we sent it to […]
